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The Devils of Bakersfield (Jack Liffey, Bk 10)
The Devils of Bakersfield - Jack Liffey, Bk 10 Author:John Shannon The seemingly sleepy oil town of Bakersfield in the farmlands of the San Joaquin Valley offers Jack Liffey and his daughter Maeve a bizarre, increasingly dark alternative to Los Angeles. Long suspicious of outsiders, the town has made a grim history of its prejudices against Okies, then blacks, then labor organizers, and now it has cast its para... more »noid fears on a group of rebellious teen girls alleged to be Satanists. Hysteria reigns as the town mounts a mammouth book burning. When the police start rounding up young troublemakers unsympathetic to the evangelical cause, Maeve disappears. As a thick fog envelops Bakersfield's saucer-shaped church, against Jack's best efforts the head pastor prepares to exorcise the girls of their demons. All hell is about to break loose.« less